That's the online version of the paper journal, Science. While paywalls do, in fact, suck, they probably wouldn't get many subscriptions. Sometimes you can find that content in Google cache though. With a little creativity I was able to find: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/01/us-atom-smasher-to-end-quest.html
which might be the free summary. The scientific journals are getting pretty agressive about this because most of them are getting pretty good about allowing free access to anything over six months old. If you really wanted to send it to your parents, you might be able to download the pdf by logging on from your local library though--a lot of them have online access to such things (especially Science and Nature as both journals have broad appeal as well as published papers.)

Earlier this morning, I saw a story at Daily Kos that really upset me. It's the sort of thing that I would hope transcends political ideology, and I thought that if I submitted it to Reddit, maybe it would eventually attract enough attention to make some kind of difference. I didn't want to link...